Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitude...s to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

MWhat is a ghost? Stephen said with tingling energy. One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through ...change of manners. Elizabethan London lay as far from Stratford as corrupt Paris lies from virgin Dublin. Who is the ghost from limbo patrum, returning to the world that has forgotten him? Who is King Hamlet?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see...A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling stringsAnd pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as shesings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »